This is is the very first post in my LX521 build, not counting a couple of background posts saying what I’m building and why I’m building it. Tonight I got started on making my speaker wires. The LX521 is a four-way speaker with an active crossover, meaning that for a … Continue reading →

What am I building? It’s the LX521. Here’s a picture of me feeling starstruck. Part 2a- The LX521, compared to what else? Ok, so they cost about $3k to build on a tight budget… what are they competing against? The LX521 speaker was created by Siegfried Linkwitz, and he’s the … Continue reading →

I’ve been interested in speakers and sound for a very long time, and if I had to pick some point in time that started this it might have been in the summer of 2000 when I was working for Radio Shack. I only worked there for that summer before college … Continue reading →

There are many ways to experience beauty. Better writers than I have written about that subject extensively, so I won’t pontificate about it here. I’ll just say that I recently visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and I saw people using their phones in a way that’s quite common now that … Continue reading →

Tonight I was looking through some of my pictures from Instagram and Flickr, and I thought, “I should totally round up all the pictures I’ve ever taken of dogs”. This might not be *all* of the dog pictures, but here’s a quick stab at it:

Twelve shoots later, the calendar is done! I wasn’t able to fit everyone who was originally on the list due to random circumstances, but I did manage to fill it up. If this is even moderately successful it would be awesome to do it again and get even more people! … Continue reading →

Last night I did a short shoot with Alexandra Naughton, and when the results were posted on Facebook people were kind of excited about it. Some people from the bay area poetry scene started speaking up about wanting to get portraits too, and I said “Hey, why not make a … Continue reading →

My friend, Alexandra Naughton, recently created an E-book of poetry created by taking a black marker to Billy Corgan’s book of poetry. It’s a technique that’s sometimes called black-out or deletion poetry, and I thought it was a really cool idea. I was inspired to give it a try, and … Continue reading →

Picking one day to make resolutions for the new year is not a good idea. We can do this any day of the year, and indeed we should resolve to make change whenever we recognize that it’s a good idea. What’s special about today is that we can take it … Continue reading →

About a year ago I was contacted by a professor at UC Berkeley who had found my resume online. Her team had produced a backpack device that was capable of collecting data to generate 3D models of internal spaces, and she needed a new backpack designed that would be smaller … Continue reading →